An eight-panel AIDS Memorial Quilt is currently being shown at the Newport Public Library in the lower lobby. The display, provided by AIDS Quilt RI, will be in residence for the month of August. More...

With a summer that has, according to many observers, been accompanied by a noticeable increase in large bus traffic around Newport, councilors took up several matters at their regular meeting on Wednesday, Aug. More...

As several challenges to The Breakers welcome center make their way through the courts, attention has recently turned to an appeal filed in March by the Bellevue Ochre Point Neighborhood Association (BOPNA). More...

The cricket’s name is Howie, and the book describing his adventures around and about Newport in rhyming verse and illustrations could, its creators hope, become the next big thing in children’s books. More...

Sometimes, bands just happen. There is a local married couple who never thought about gigging together. But now that the kids are grown and life has settled down, they’re having a blast playing with their new, funky blues band. More...

After the Town of Middletown initiated a review into the “governance and financial irregularities” of a school laptop purchase program, the School Committee is hiring an independent, outside consultant to review the department’s fin More...

Very few are indifferent about comedian Kathy Griffin. She has earned two Emmys, a Grammy and continues her third decade of activism on many social issues. Griffin doesn’t just comment on societal woes and injustices; she fights to correct them. More...